21.   Widespread poverty has consolidated the normally quarreling bishops of the region and pushed them collectively leftward.

22.   Peruvian Foreign Minister Diego Garcia Sayan said making the Americas safer also requires new efforts to deal with widespread poverty.

23.   A founding member of the ruling party, Mwanawasa has pledged to address widespread poverty, bolster education and health services and root out corruption in the government.

24.   A surfeit of guns, widespread poverty and racial tension are blamed for the crime wave.

25.   All that has to happen in a nation mixing modern cities and services equal to Western standards with widespread poverty and other social ills prevalent in much of Africa.

26.   Although there was no evidence so far that farmers were returning to growing opium, Chawla said they might if political instability and widespread poverty continued.

27.   Asia is defined by widespread poverty, as it is by its multitude of cultures and creeds, they noted.

28.   Both U.S. and European authorities were wary that widespread poverty would spawn popular discontent and allow communists to make inroads.

29.   But critics said even with the improvements, Mexico still faced widespread poverty that was triggering growing social unrest.

30.   But the country continues to suffer widespread poverty and dangerous ethnic and religious divides that regularly flare into violence.